Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -98.7531° West, 36.4692° North, depth 7.037 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.037 km (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/16 / 2016-05-24 20:10:57 / May 24, 2016 @ 8:10 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:10:57 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005xm1. Unique identifier: us20005xm1.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7531° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4692° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.037 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-24 20:10:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-26 18:25:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20005xm1	Id of event.
Event Code	20005xm1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005xm1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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